Volume Creation Time

Volume Creation Time

[Steve French]

In testing the Samba server with Linux kernel client, I noticed that
the SMB2 network operation which returns the volume serial number,
FileFsVolumeInformation (which I was using to get a unique id for the
volume via the VolumeSerialNumber) also is supposed to retun a
"VolumeCreationTime"   -  this seems like a reasonable thing, but I
don't know how to get this from ext4 or generally from the Linux VFS.
 Any ideas how Samba server could get a reasonable estimate of
"VolumeCreationTime" for a particular Linux volume?

-- 
Thanks,

Steve

Re: Volume Creation Time

[Steve French]

Also was interesting that this level, FileFsVolumeInformation wants
Samba to return a "VolumeLabel" - although I can't think of an obvious
way to return something similar (Samba returns the share name, which
can be overridden in smb.conf for this call)

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com> wrote:
> In testing the Samba server with Linux kernel client, I noticed that
> the SMB2 network operation which returns the volume serial number,
> FileFsVolumeInformation (which I was using to get a unique id for the
> volume via the VolumeSerialNumber) also is supposed to retun a
> "VolumeCreationTime"   -  this seems like a reasonable thing, but I
> don't know how to get this from ext4 or generally from the Linux VFS.
>  Any ideas how Samba server could get a reasonable estimate of
> "VolumeCreationTime" for a particular Linux volume?
>
> --
> Thanks,
>
> Steve
>



-- 
Thanks,

Steve
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